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I don't make resolutions, just think of a few things and term them "goals." For me that's easier to deal with than something so unchangeable.

Goals seem to be all inclusive with the exercise thing; that includes me, plus losing some lbs.

It's been over 3 months since I quit smoking and my goal is to continue that. Every time I go back it's harder to quit again.

I'd also like to put some cash in savings. I have no emergency fund, it was all spent on Christmas and grandchildren. I just found out my car needs a serpentine belt, so that will have to be saved for.

Also do improve on my job performance. I believe there's always room for improvement.

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I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.-Clarence Darrow

This is as likely as Philicia's resolution. Though I do notice you said "be kind" (not kinder). Baby steps.

I've no resolutions for 2013. I will continue to be same unhealthy, whorish, meaner than a junkyard bitch, lazy slob. At any rate that's what's gonna happen even if I devise some grandiose plan to improve myself :/

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"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

Seroconverted: Early 80sTested & confirmed what I already knew: early 90s

Current regimen: Atripla. Last regimen: Epzicom, Sustiva (since its inception with NO adverse side effects: no vivid dreams and NONE of the problems people who can't tolerate this drug may experience: color me lucky )Past regimensFun stuff (in the past): HAV/HBV, crypto, shingles, AIDS, PCP

I just want to know if Miss P is moving to San Antonio, or Wumpy is moving to Philly in 2013. The will they or won't they is getting old. Plan the wedding already. Make this your resolutions. Who here will be the brides maids? I will be the flower girl. I haven't wanted to see a wedding, since Alice married Sam the butcher.

Black eyed pea consumption for New Year's Day dinner is a southern thing -- I was forced to eat them every year, and only then. My mother loves them. I think they are the most vile, nasty thing in the world. Even worse than beef liver and onions.

Black eyed pea consumption for New Year's Day dinner is a southern thing -- I was forced to eat them every year, and only then. My mother loves them. I think they are the most vile, nasty thing in the world. Even worse than beef liver and onions.

I don't think anyone indulges in that where I live now.

My mother provided me with a big plate of them for today's lunch. I don't totally hate them but they're not really my favorite.

Seroconverted: Early 80sTested & confirmed what I already knew: early 90s

Current regimen: Atripla. Last regimen: Epzicom, Sustiva (since its inception with NO adverse side effects: no vivid dreams and NONE of the problems people who can't tolerate this drug may experience: color me lucky )Past regimensFun stuff (in the past): HAV/HBV, crypto, shingles, AIDS, PCP

I would like to kindly request a detailed description of what you think queso is. I rather doubt that it's authentic freshly pressed queso fresco sitting in cheesecloth, or quesillo Oaxaca. Or are you referring to left-over felching secretions from your Justin Beiber sex doll? Should I send you that animated .gif file with hot milk shooting out of that twink's rear end? It's ever so unfortunate that we can no longer post such delectable internet discoveries!

A lot of good goals/resolutions...I'll add mine. It's a small list, but stuff I need to get done. I'm also stealing some from others, because I like them

Get out an socialize more

Finish paying off credit cards

Excercising more. Starting with getting out and walking more. Since the diagnosis, I've been kind of under house arrest, and now that I am feeling good again, I need to start working some muscles. It's been too long.

To read more. I got a Kindle last year (2011) for Christmas, and barely use it. Part of the problem is I can never find any good books...

To stay as healthy as possible So far, it's looking good.

Like BT, I think of them more as goals. I never stick to my resolutions...maybe this year I can accomplish my list of goals.

Now that I re-read Wumpy's homemade meal it sounds about three times as greasy as a White Castle bag of sliders. Do you actually consume all of that pork grease without taking imodium? And I had to look up how to cook "fried cabbage" and it looks like it's cooked in bacon grease. Looks horrible.

I just want to know if Miss P is moving to San Antonio, or Wumpy is moving to Philly in 2013. The will they or won't they is getting old. Plan the wedding already. Make this your resolutions. Who here will be the brides maids? I will be the flower girl. I haven't wanted to see a wedding, since Alice married Sam the butcher.

Now this would make a good sitcom...kind of a modern day "Green Acres" (for those of us old enough to remember that show).

I had a friend in college who was from Baltimore and they ate sauerkraut on New Years too even though they were Italian. But they had kielbasa with it not roast pork which seems Polish to me. Fortunately since I don't, nor have I ever as an adult, lived where I grew up I don't feel tied to any tradition on a seasonal basis.

I suppose sauerkraut is healthier than frying it in bacon grease. Am I the only person who throws away my bacon grease and refuses to ever cook with it?

ps: I'm about to make grits and skillet-seared salt-cured country ham for breakfast!

...Am I the only person who throws away my bacon grease and refuses to ever cook with it?...

Evidently so. I made some nice slab bacon on Christmas morning -- that's the first time I've cooked bacon since I moved into my place in 2010. I couldn't resist saving the bacon grease, because I knew it would make some delicious cream gravy that I slathered over homemade biscuits on New Year's morning.

Bon Appetit!

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"Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love." - Butch Hancock, Musician, The Flatlanders

Am I the only person who throws away my bacon grease and refuses to ever cook with it?

I am totally with you on this one. I find the practice vile!!!!

My granny cooked bacon every morning and I watched in horror as she woul dip bread in the hot bacon grease and eat it. I can only imagine what her arteries looked like. She might have lived a lot longer if she ate better. She died in her sleep of a massive heart attack. She was only 94. My other grandmother is still alive. At 93, we won't even attempt to change her ways. But I guarantee you'll find a huge vile can of bacon greast in the cabinet.

My granny cooked bacon every morning and I watched in horror as she woul dip bread in the hot bacon grease and eat it. I can only imagine what her arteries looked like. She might have lived a lot longer if she ate better. She died in her sleep of a massive heart attack. She was only 94. My other grandmother is still alive. At 93, we won't even attempt to change her ways. But I guarantee you'll find a huge vile can of bacon greast in the cabinet.

Wolfie

Only 94 ! . If I die at 94 with bacon breath I will consider it a life well lived .